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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 2d

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 5d

Gorgeous!

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 5d

Oh hi, Emma! One of the best pb editors in kidlit (think we can lure her to Bluesky, @armyvet5.bsky.social @mrschureads.bsky.social?). 🥰

Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 6d

Emma Ledbetter Joins Candlewick as Executive Editorial Director of Picture Books buff.ly/Jj6K6hw

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 7d

So happy Reading Rainbow is back, and with YOU. Lucky kiddos. Congratulations!

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 8d

"I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the communist-party. I oppose every form of dictatorship. right or
left, because they ultimately destroy the nation in which they operate. They do so by robbing the people of their right to think and create."
—from the family archive, 1954

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 21d

!!!

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 21d

Re other reasons many 19th century novels have fallen by the wayside... have you read @rebeccaromney.com's Jane Austen's Bookshelf?

Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 21d

This is a great outcome, of course…
But yeah kids will read if you allow them to be bored. For whom was this “unexpected”? 🧐

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 21d

“It turns out [duh] that when kids aren’t allowed to doom scroll, take rude pictures of each other or rot their brains on TikTok during lunch hour or in study hall, they get bored enough to go to the library and check out books.”
@nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

Opinion | The Unexpected Upside of Phone Bans in Schools

www.nytimes.com

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 22d

You've worked so long & hard on this... Happy Book Birthday!

Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 26d

And what do we call a collection of book-banners...
A suppression?
A repression?
Suggestions...?

Boni Ashburn @boniashburn.bsky.social · 26d

Collective Nouns for Librarians www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/col...

Collective Nouns for Librarians

A group of librarians is called a cardigan. A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading. A collection of Eric Carle books covered in s...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 26d

"A group of underfunded libraries is called a tragedy." :(

Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 27d

All the fall bloomers make me nervous about weeding! Asters, mums, goldenrod (thinking it's ragweed)... this year I've started marking where those clumps are.

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 27d

(I obviously agree)

“There is so much to learn about clouds!” ... And indeed, so much to learn about the world and how we perceive it. Cirrus-ly great.” — ★ Kirkus Reviews www.deborahfreedman.net/partly-cloudy, @penguinschoollib.bsky.social

PARTLY CLOUDY, by Deborah Freedman. Cover with clouds and two bunnies painting and reading about clouds.

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · 27d

"We Take Clouds for Granted" by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, of @cloudappsoc.bsky.social.

"...These ever-shifting sculptures of vapor and light are among nature’s least appreciated marvels..." We all need "to look up — and take notice." @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 29d

We’re in the business of keeping independent bookstores in business 🤍📚

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · Sep 8

Fun fact I learned this weekend is that every state has a state insect, and that CT’s is the praying mantis—which is cool and I hope means that sap-sucking parasites are generally unwelcome here.

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · Sep 4

Honored to rep CT at this year's Nat'l Book Festival along with Leila Philip. With mixed feelings about going to DC right now, I look forward to being with good book people!

Will you be one of them?
(I hope so, but completely respect anyone who's felt the need to pull out or boycott 😳)

2025 National Book Festival | Events at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress

The 2025 National Book Festival will be held in the nation's capital at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday, September 6, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. (doors open at 8:30 a.m.). The event ...

www.loc.gov

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · Sep 2

Wishing you a great school year!

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · Sep 1

!!

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · Sep 1

New-to-me #bookscam. What the $%@# is a "visibility snapshot" & why would I need this gobbledygook generated from my publisher's description of a book I wrote myself from my own actual brain & hand? This from an address that doesn't even pretend to be a real business... 🙄

Someone save us all.

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · Aug 29

They are! And funny, we started the week by shopping for snacks—cheddar bunnies and ice cream cones! And it turns out that five-year-olds also love to scan groceries. ;)

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · Aug 28

"...It is about whether we protect our collective capacity to imagine. When governments control imagination, they control possibility. Once that is lost, democracy has already surrendered more than it realizes."

Jose Vilson, PhD @thejosevilson.com · Aug 28

This read from Amy Sherald is important. Art as a reflection of the visions we need for the world is not discussed enough:

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Why I refused to let the Smithsonian show my work

History shows us what happens when governments demand that museums perform loyalty.

www.msnbc.com

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · Aug 28

"...having a child qualifies you to write a children’s book the same way that using a toilet qualifies you to be a plumber..."
😆 @newyorker.com #AuthorSky #booksky #kidlit
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Celebrity Picture Book Boom

What should we make of the recent onslaught of stories from the stars?

www.newyorker.com

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Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net · Aug 28

What Margie said. Happy Birthday to one of my favorite humans, @mrschureads.bsky.social.

Loveofxena @loveofxena.bsky.social · Aug 28

Happiest of birthdays to the one and only @mrschureads.bsky.social Your books, your presentations, and your joyful, capacious heart are enriching lives every single day. You are so loved by so many. mrschureads.blogspot.com

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